Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is this that I was hinting at in the previous chapter , when I referred to the queen ant as the central data bank . |
| 2 | Clause 5 was commented on by the hon. Member for Sedgefield and by my hon. Friend the Member for Waveney ( Mr. Porter ) . |
| 3 | And when a ratepayer challenged a local authority 's conduct of its policy to sell council houses and invoked his statutory right to complain to the District Auditor , he was debarred from at the same time pursuing the alternative remedy of applying to the courts for judicial review . |
| 4 | With regard to the remit of the STUCC , which was referred to by the Hon. |
| 5 | Payment of that sum and other monies from the Deanses to the club was referred to by the outgoing financial director , Clive Scott . |
| 6 | Although the now frequently-used concept of ‘ the right to resistance ’ was referred to in the older religion-based natural law theories , it is mainly the more recent , secularised version of natural law with its emphasis on human rights that seems to provide a theoretical underpinning for some of the assertions about the illegality of nuclear war and the justifiability of nuclear protest . |
| 7 | This was called ‘ ganging a sitting ’ in Hawkshead , and it was referred to in the same terms across the country at Dent . |
| 8 | The house was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning and the intruders carried off the rock and pop CDs in a Head sports bag which they also stole from the house . |
| 9 | Typically , most Windows spreadsheets perform better doing what Windows was designed for in the first place — graphical presentation . |
| 10 | It is perhaps interesting to note that , despite the urgency of the situation , the convention that the accident investigation authority of one State communicates with the accident investigation authority of another State and the airworthiness authority of one State communicates with the airworthiness authority of another State was adhered to in the alerting procedure . |
| 11 | This system was adhered to throughout the seventeenth century . |
| 12 | It was built in the 13th century on older foundations , as a shared church , serving both a convent of nuns and the local parish , and was added to over the next five centuries . |
| 13 | It gave the room an artificially cosy feel , which was added to by the open fireplace and the array of expensive leather furniture that dotted the floor , spread out on thick carpet as dark as wet concrete . |
| 14 | Further fuel to the drive for competitiveness was added at about the same time by inter-provincial rivalry . |
| 15 | The UUAC was looked to as the natural vehicle for action . |
| 16 | ‘ He was looked upon as the younger brother in a family is . |
| 17 | The lack of a lock on the one and only toilet was compensated for by the frosted glass panels in the door . |
| 18 | Not much was said of over the next four hours , and the identities of Sixsmith 's supplicants emerged only partially and piecemeal . |
| 19 | The DUC found the group it was looking for in the Oxford-based Political Ecology Research Group : ‘ They more or less said to us , ‘ We 'll not take on your issue if we decide that in the upshot our report will be favourable to the mining companies . |
| 20 | That point was elaborated upon by the then Secretary of State for Scotland , the right hon. and learned Member for Edinburgh , Pentlands ( Mr. Rifkind ) who now runs — or rather does not run — our railway system . |
| 21 | And Jesus was going across to the other side to look for this man . |
| 22 | At the US Open at Shinnecock Hills he played the best I 'd ever seen him play — probably even better than he was going to in the British Open . |
| 23 | H pylori was stained for by the modified Giemsa method . |
| 24 | Coun Hughes said the emergency services were called to Barnard Castle shortly before 2pm , while the nearby health centre was contacted at about the same time . |
| 25 | The committee observed at paragraph 18 that the fact that misappropriation of property was dealt with under the three separate heads of larceny , embezzlement and fraudulent conversion inevitably made for difficulty and complication . |
| 26 | Administratively Korea was dealt with by the Colonial Ministry until 1942 when the Home Ministry assumed responsibility . |
| 27 | On the eastern side of the county , indeed , where it lay along the Bedfordshire border , one acre in every two was dealt with by the Georgian planners . |
| 28 | On this occasion he was dealt with by the juvenile court for an offence of being a passenger in a stolen car or a car taken without authority and he received a conditional discharge . |
| 29 | I have even managed to persist so long that the final work on an article was dealt with by the third editor , but that owed something to my delays as well . |
| 30 | take it in the end but erm anyway I got this diploma and er then I was quite annoyed because erm Social Services then erm pu the Welfare for the Blind was dealt with by the Public Health Department and a vacancy occurred in the Public Health Department for erm Blind Welfare Officer , or at least a Welfare Officer for the Blind and I applied for it and erm , they er did n't make an appointment because they did n't er get in other applications but they di they did n't offer me the appointment . |